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65+ Ideas for Updating Your Voiceover Branding
When’s the last time you updated your information….EVERYWHERE? A short list to get you going.
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Quarantine Query
We freelancers got this “work from home” thing down pat. Here’s how to capitalize on the know-how with your clients.
COVID-19 Conundrum for Voice Actors
{NOTE: As of Wednesday evening, 3-11-2020, Voiceover Atlanta organizer Gerald Griffith has agreed to postpone the event planned for later this month until a better time to gather people together after the COVID-19 threat has passed} People are relational. They tend...
Ah, the Mic. The Mighty Mic!
The mic is a voice talent’s axe.. While we can’t escape its necessity, there’s no reason to let it overburden us either.
A Little Risk is a Good Thing
…so don’t even try.
Why YOU are still the final arbiter of your brand
Will the Fear of Coronavirus Affect Your VO Business?
The answer is complicated by a lot of things, not the least of which is worldwide media coverage.
2nd Edition of “More Than Just a Voice…” Now Available!
Six years after the release of my first book, the follow-up act is published. Here’s why the new edition was inevitable.
Voice Over Education
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World Voices #WoVochat
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VO Business & Compensation
Quaint Notion, VO Prospecting
CRACKING CRAIGSLIST Yesterday, I was reading through my Google Alerts, and came across a Craigslist ad placed by a seasoned VO pro. I've re-printed most of it for you to see below the line-break. The ad came complete with a graphic, phone #, website address, a map to...
Radio?
Yes...RADIO The transistor radio was my intro to geekdom. Once I had that wireless, battery-powered plastic 'n' metal box in my hands, I was untethered and unalterably transformed. Growing up near St. Louis, I had powerhouse KMOX talk-radio at my fingers. But on a...
Say The Most Powerful Word in Voiceover
VoiceOver Pro? You. The seasoned professional. You, the experienced voice-actor. You, the knowledgeable and worldly audio producer. What are you saying when you're approached by someone who shows the proper respect, passion, drive, and sense-to-ask-the-right-question...
Voice Over Education
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Voice Over Hardware & Software tools
Wi-Fi Fiddling
Through what broadband configuration are you sending your big audiofiles? How are you connecting on Skype? That big Source Connect job?...is it getting hung up on your slow internet speed? We all just put Wi-Fi in our home and forget it. Your upload/download speeds...
Attach Me
Have you noticed how just about every online site you've ever signed-up for is becoming uber-social? Voice Over people seem to like social, so we fall victim about as much as anybody to the promise of social networking. Plaxo started out as a place to sync your...
Cool Graphics
Since voice actors deserve respect as freelancers - providing specialty services -- we all appreciate the value of hiring other professional, qualified freelancers to help us with our business, right? I've hired webauthors, audio engineers, producers, blog-masters,...
Are You Seeing All This Stuff?
My mouse aggressively travels the WWW every day, and I have alerts, subscriptions, RSS feeds, and aggregate sites galore. I'm always keeping an eye out for VO stuff, or helpful hints for voice acting freelance businesspeople. Herewith a list of some of the jucier,...
My Five Fave Sites This Week
(1) Love love love LinkedIn for it's powerful, deep, and broad search tools, but LI has just a fraction of the population of FaceBook. What if you could do similar custom searches on FaceBook as you do on LinkedIn? You can with the techniques explained in the...
Next Gen MicPortPro?
JK Audio makes this little gem. Appropriately, it's called the BlueDriver in reference to it's built-in BlueTooth wireless connection. JK has a fine reputation for all sorts of audio interfaces, things like phone patch devices, wireless headsets, and products for...
SoundCloud & Pinterest
My gratitude to voice actor Karen Commins for her tip that forms the basis of today's blog. Despite the points I made in my previous article on "A VO's Place on Pinterest", Karen was still skeptical about the value in this new Social Network for her VO business. But...
Your Presence Needed….
...or is it? You get to decide...and at some point, you really HAVE to, or you're wasting your time. Remember the question I posed a couple of weeks ago: Can VO Be TOO Social? The question has also since cropped up on (of course) a FaceBook Group, with a wide...
SlideShare and Social Media
PowerPoint presentations are ubiquitous. Who hasn't done one, or at least thought about doing one? The ole .ppt is at the center of just about every presentation, webinar, and teleseminar I've ever held or attended. For instance, a PowerPoint slideshow was at the...
Tablet Transformation
Tablets are a game changer. Sure, your iPad is handy for swiping through copy as you read...easy to catch up on email while waiting at the doctor's office...but tablet computers are about to explode on the scene in ways you didn't expect, and the jury's still out on...
Voice Over Events
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The COVID-19 Long Tail Paradox
In the span of what seems to be a few short days, we've all had to adjust like never ever before. "Social Distancing". That new buzzword phrase perfectly connotes our greatest paradox: we cannot do what we all really WANT to do...come together to help each other....
Quarantine Query
We freelancers got this “work from home” thing down pat. Here’s how to capitalize on the know-how with your clients.
COVID-19 Conundrum for Voice Actors
{NOTE: As of Wednesday evening, 3-11-2020, Voiceover Atlanta organizer Gerald Griffith has agreed to postpone the event planned for later this month until a better time to gather people together after the COVID-19 threat has passed} People are relational. They tend...
Voice Over Hardware & Software tools
Improvisation
Life can be messy. Work too. Perfect formulas for success are a phantom. There are a lot of people who think they have the answers. Self-help books. Coaches. Webinars. Seminars. How-To Books. Sometimes I think I have the answers too...and I've passed along some...
VO Leads Through Google Alerts
My daily routine includes sifting through a number of emails sent to me through Google Alerts. If you are not doing this yet, you should be. Here's the link to Google Alerts. In the spirit of "Google IS your resumé", you might want to start with a simple alert based...
You Are What You Write
Think about it. If you're old enough...how much did you write every day BEFORE social media came along? Not everyone has made the transition to the New Media world with grace. Yet...in a day's time, you (1) text (2) email (3) post on FaceBook (4) post on some other...
The Blog That Keeps On Giving
Back in May of 2010, I sat down to my computer in the wee hours of the night and wondered what the heck I was gonna blog about that day. Just then, that gene decided to express itself. You know...the one that often makes me feel fulfilled when I make a LIST of...
Thrufer Twosday
My fear is that I'm always late to the party with the content of the post I have for you today, but then again it could be you HAVENT' yet heard...and even if you HAVE...it might be a good reminder. First AudioCatch..."where any media project that requires music,...
Air Turn
That's actually a hardware/software product....not a Nike ad slogan. The folks from Air Turn had a booth at VOICE2012, and the product generated a healthy buzz among conference attendees. Air Turn is a Bluetooth footpedal apparatus that works with your iPad or Android...
Giving Voice to Your Invoice
The invoice is admittedly one of the most important documents your voice-over business will generate. Not just because you want to be paid, but because it's an extension of your brand, your business savvy, and your bookkeeping practices...and ultimately customer...
LinkedIn Lip Service
"Oh yeah!...I'm on LinkedIn...I just don't use it much." ('Wish I had a Neumann for ever time I heard that!) In about three weeks and three days I'll take the stage with Terry Daniel and Trish Basanyi at the Disneyland hotel during VOICE2012 to talk Social Media...
Bi-Linguage
Having grown up in white-bread middle-America in the 50's, I never imagined a future for this country that accepted anything else but English. I won't mince my words: I think it weakens our country to be bi-lingual. That sounds odd coming from me. I'm the son of a...
Coffee with CourVO
Fellow VO Social Media geeks Terry Daniel and Trish Basanyi several weeks ago resurrected their highly-successful VO podcast series, and renamed it "Voice Over Cafe". I was lucky enough to be 3rd on their list of guests, and recorded with them the other day. We talked...
Illinois Winter Beauty
Finding respite with family, and inspiration in the sparse, crisp moment of a Prairie State sunset. CourVO
ThankYou MasterMind
Once a month, I meet online with 9 other voice-actors. They're awesome. I'm just pedaling fast to keep up. We are the "board of directors" for each other's voice-acting business (roughly). We call it our "MasterMind" group. MasterMind is a fairly common concept for...
Reality Hits Hard
Did you hear the 4th annual VO holiday greeting compilation put together by my friend Terry Daniel? You need to...it's so fun! Here's the SoundCloud link. https://soundcloud.com/voiceoversbyterrydaniel/the-fourth-annual-voice-talent This is an exquisite example of...